title: Evaluation of health professionals in the use of internet information retrieval systems in health: a literature review.
abstract: This paper presents a literature review on how health professionals are seeking health information using internet retrieval systems, databases. Publications present many attitude scales which evaluate the behavior of the users and the barriers that they face through the information research. On the following review are mentioned the characteristics that health professionals encounter on the use of computing. Also, is mentioned a number of problems which are associated with the information recourses such as reliability that were elicited and reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Health Informatics Laboratory, Faculty of Nursing, University of Athens.
authors.forename: Pashalina
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lialiou
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mantas
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D057225:Data Mining / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D057220:Health Literacy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D020407:Internet / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008503:Medical Staff / Q000706:statistics & numerical data